Sentence examples for certain primacy from inspiring English sources

Although the East has recognized that Rome enjoyed a certain "primacy of honour" among the other patriarchal sees of the first millennium (Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem), it considers hypertrophic the development by which Rome dogmatized its own claim to universal jurisdiction and an infallible teaching authority.

Rawls says that "justice as fairness assigns a certain primacy to the social" (CP 339).

Much of Selena's music forms similar tensions, [such as "Amor Prohibido"], in which the dominant precepts are fashioned as a murmuring, a catty whispering that achieves a certain primacy as a hegemonic disclosure.

In decision about single items, the patient perspective has a certain primacy in the sense that items that result from focus group discussions with patients may not be deleted on the request of health care providers or health insurers.

In 612 Assyria yielded its primacy to Babylon.

It was always about culture, the idea that those people aren't like us and are changing the country in ways that make us uncomfortable, so if we can toss them out then we can turn back the clock to the way it was when certain people's primacy in our society was so complete that no one questioned it.

The significance of that ruling for the future of government-press relations has been debated, but this much was certain: It established the primacy of a free press in the face of a government's insistence on secrecy.

When Ms. Gallagher told Senator Flake: "…You are telling me that my assault doesn't matter... and that you are letting people who do these things into power…" and insisted he not look away from her, she was not speaking as a political partisan, nor was she arguing about the primacy of certain values.

Consider this: In West VIrginia, no less, the state Department of Environmental Protection is so widely denounced and inept that an alliance of citizens groups has recently called for the federal government to declare a state of emergency and take primacy over certain mining regulation issues.

However, once the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) had affirmed the principles of direct effect (1.2.1) and of primacy of European law, certain national courts began to express concerns about the effects which such case law might have on the protection of constitutional values such as fundamental rights.

The act prohibits the EPA from considering cost when establishing a limit for certain pollutants, such as ozone, and asserts the primacy of human health, a principle the Supreme Court has unanimously upheld.